Internet and grammar
Lino Bugeja’s piece on the need to read and the right to write (‘Global language of Internet’ - May 23) prompted me to share a few thoughts here on this topic.
The first dictionary was published in 1806 by Marion Webster, and ever since the idea of an important principle that words be written in a specific manner was introduced as a rule in our schools.
Grammar had been around since a long time before, yet the importance of the perfect grammar principle is something becoming part of our school system rather at the same time.
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